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41. Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
PAMM is downtown Miami's modern and contemporary art museum, set in Museum Park on Biscayne Bay between the Arsht Center and the Kaseya Center.
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PAMM is downtown Miami's modern and contemporary art museum, set in Museum Park on Biscayne Bay between the Arsht Center and the Kaseya Center.
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The Smithsonian museum devoted to African American history and culture, opened in 2016 in a bronze-coloured building beside the Washington Monument.
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The Cathedral-Basilica of St Louis, King of France, faces Jackson Square and is one of the oldest cathedrals in continuous use in the United States.
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Opened in Stanley Park in 1956, the Vancouver Aquarium has galleries from the Amazon to the BC coast, sea otters, a 4D theatre and a marine mammal rescue area.
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A small Maya settlement in Cancún's Hotel Zone, run by INAH, where house platforms, altars and traces of murals line an ancient north-south avenue.
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A formal garden established in 1837 beside Boston Common, with a lagoon crossed by a small bridge, Swan Boats and the Make Way for Ducklings statues.
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An 18th-century hilltop castle in Chapultepec forest, once home to Emperor Maximilian and later presidents, now the National Museum of History with terraces over the city.
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A 1,300-acre park in Mid-City with ancient live oaks, lagoons, a botanical garden, a vintage carousel, NOMA and its free sculpture garden.
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Arthur Erickson's 1976 museum on the UBC campus holds around 50,000 ethnographic objects, Northwest Coast poles in its Great Hall and Bill Reid's The Raven and the First Men.
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Housed in a Frank Gehry building at Seattle Center, MoPOP covers music, film, science fiction and games, with a large Jimi Hendrix collection.
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Frost Science is a science museum, aquarium and planetarium in Museum Park, best known for its three-level aquarium and a large domed planetarium.
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A large aquarium at the foot of the CN Tower with more than 20,000 animals, an underwater tunnel with a moving walkway, jellyfish galleries and a touch pool.
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Domed basilica and pilgrimage shrine on Mount Royal in Côte-des-Neiges, founded by Saint Brother André, with free entry, a museum and wide views over the city.
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SFMOMA is San Francisco's modern and contemporary art museum in SoMa, with works by Kahlo, Rothko, Pollock and Warhol across seven gallery levels.
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Built in 1909 and now a National Historic Landmark, Santa Monica Pier stretches into the Pacific with Pacific Park's rides, food stands, street performers and ocean views.
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Opened in 1930 on the lakefront, Shedd Aquarium houses aquatic life from around the world in galleries such as Amazon Rising, Wild Reef and the Abbott Oceanarium.
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Museum of organised crime and law enforcement in Downtown's restored 1933 post office and courthouse, with a basement speakeasy and distillery, open daily from 9am to 9pm.
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MoMA in Midtown holds one of the most important collections of modern and contemporary art, from Van Gogh and Picasso to film, design and photography.
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The domed home of the US Congress on Capitol Hill, visited on free guided tours from the underground Capitol Visitor Center on its east side.
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A quiet Postclassic Maya site north of downtown Cancún, where El Castillo rises over a ceremonial plaza and a fig tree grows out of a temple.
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